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Vesicles in electric fields: Some novel aspects of membrane behavior
Date
2009-01-01Registration in:
Soft Matter. Cambridge: Royal Soc Chemistry, v. 5, n. 17, p. 3201-3212, 2009.
1744-683X
10.1039/b901963d
WOS:000269062900006
Author
Dimova, Rumiana
Bezlyepkina, Natalya
Jordo, Marie Domange
Knorr, Roland L.
Riske, Karin A. [UNIFESP]
Staykova, Margarita
Vlahovska, Petia M.
Yamamoto, Tetsuya
Yang, Peng
Lipowsky, Reinhard
Institutions
Abstract
This review focuses on the effects of electric fields on giant unilamellar vesicles, a cell-size membrane system. We describe various types of behavior of vesicles subjected to either alternating fields or strong direct current pulses, such as electrodeformation, -poration and -fusion. the vesicle response to alternating fields in various medium conditions is introduced and the underlying physical mechanisms are highlighted, supported by theoretical modeling. New aspects of the response of vesicles with charged or neutral membranes, in fluid or gel-phase, and embedded in different solutions, to strong direct current pulses are described including novel applications of vesicle electrofusion for nanoparticle synthesis.